Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.
I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 people and then I go home alone.
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.
I can’t change the world the way it is, but I can try to change myself and the way I respond to the world.
You got to get it while you can.
Don’t be afraid to live. Be afraid not to live.
I always wanted to be a painter, and the music was a way to live.
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
I’m one of those regular weird people.
I’m a victim of my own insides.
I’m one of those people who has always been a little bit different.
I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
Onstage, I make love to 25,000 people and then I go home alone.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
I wouldn’t mind dying in a plane crash. It’d be a good way to go. I don’t want to die in my sleep or of old age, or OD…I want to feel what it’s like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don’t want to miss it.
People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
When I sing, I feel good.
When I’m singing and it’s really working, I’m like a tossing ship on a rough sea.
The more you try to pin me down, the more I slip through your fingers.
I’m a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned to make that feeling work for me.
I’m not trying to change the world. I’m just trying to make sure I can live in it.
When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings, I’m a fucking monster.
If you want to be free, be free, ’cause there’s a million things to be.
I’m the same person I always was, but when people know you, you’re kind of not a person any more.
I would like to be known as a frickin’ genius who always tried to push the limits.
Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.
I don’t want to go home. Not yet.
Freedom means you have to be responsible for your own shit.
You can’t bullshit me. And you’ve got to be honest.
It doesn’t matter who I am, really. The main thing is, I have a future.
I love being on stage. I love it when people listen to what you’re doing.
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.
I will never be just another dead junkie singer.
I think I was always a fabulous person.
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses.
If you rub up against reality often enough, you learn to be patient.
You change it. You live it. Of course, you can’t help but learn from the things you’ve done, but the only way to learn really well is to live really well.
I’m going to be rich and famous someday. I’ve put in the hours. You don’t think I’ve paid my dues? Sure I have. I’ve paid through the nose. I honestly don’t know how I stood it all those years. There must have been something driving me, something inside of me.
Don’t talk to me about inspiration. You think it’s inspiration that got me where I am? Sure, after I threw in the sponge. Show me anybody who’s inspired and I’ll show you a guy who’s a dead build for a fall. I’m no Benjamin Disraeli or Abe Lincoln, but I worked like a dog to get where I am. And I’m not even there yet.
Truth is never stable or fixed; it is subject to the advances of knowledge and science.
I’m going to be the greatest rock-‘n’-roll singer in the world.
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